ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 57, 14 March 1907, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Per Press Association. Thames* March 13. ■"Civs was received to-day that Thomas Mitchell, a well-known settler at 1 urn, near Thames, shot himself dead Milh a «uii this morning. Ha was a prosperous man, though he led a lcoely life, No details are to hand as to whether the case was one of suicide or accident. Deceased was smgle and about fifty years of age. The inquest on Thomas Milchell who shot himsdf this mornina, disclosed the fact (hat deceased had been suffering from insomnia for some time. , uut °rfuna,te nyw mado a deiiber. ate preparation to end his life. He rested a s.iot guu oj a chair, and then, fastening a string to the trigger, ho jwsel (lie cord round Iho leg of the ; Iw'dins the gun close to iiis head with his left hand, pulling the string al'aelied to tl o trigger with the other. D.-ath was instantaneous. Deeoascd who was a native of Glasgow, aged \i possessed considerable means. A ver-' diet of suicide while temporary insano was relurttcd. CußisTcHi'Bcn, March 13. A plateky-r named fiobert Heft while rcadm a paper, died suddenly „f lempleton this afternoon. rn, March 13. ! J-ttoraas Phillips, who was injured on Sund.iy by his horse smashing through a gate that ho was intended to jump, died in the. hospital to-night, not bating t'ousnousuGss. An eldorly Maori also is in a critical condition in the hospital through a fall troui a horse.